{"id":898,"date":"2007-08-19T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T01:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/19\/915\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T20:28:37","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T01:28:37","slug":"915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":":("},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing that was bad, is still bad. (Is worse?)<\/p>\n

Kids, man…they break your heart. (In case you didn’t get the memos, the ugliness is now every Sunday instead of every other Thursday. Mark your calendars).<\/p>\n

Also: The next person I know IRL to get pregnant is going to get the Secret Baby Stash. There must be some super bad mojo stuck to a onesie or something. Hmm. Here’s hoping the next person I know IRL who gets pregnant doesn’t read the blog.<\/p>\n

We’re all going to laugh about this sometime, right? Laugh about how all it took was just an eeeeensy bit more patience and then it all was instantly fixed.<\/p>\n

I was escaping<\/strike> driving around this afternoon and Sting’s song “I’m So Happy I Can’t Stop Crying<\/a>” came on the iPod. I was doing OK until the last verse:<\/p>\n

“The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream
\nWe try to do the best within the given time
\nA kid should be with his mother<\/u>,
\nEverybody knows that
\nWhat can a father do but baby-sit sometimes?”<\/font><\/p>\n

Clearly, Sting’s ex-wife is not a REDACTED. (Where would I be without the word REDACTED, which I have probably shamefully been misusing for months?). Gene is not a “Sunday father”. Sometimes he jokingly refers to himself as “Weekend Dad” but Gene is a father 24\/7\/365. He is a father on the 15th (when The Check is due), he was a Father on Father’s Day, when he got nothing besides an abusive phone call. He is a father on any random Tuesday in April or November. He rates so much higher than “Sunday father” or “Weekend Dad”.<\/p>\n

Hmm, so, la la la. ::twiddles thumbs:: Nope, no good way to end this post…maybe that’s why I kept it saved for so long. Byeee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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